A few other things that help pull this trick off: 1) The railways were already mostly built when privatized and the government kept the debt and/or offloaded it on government-run pension funds and th… (View Post)

This is where I think Truss is being underestimated. She somehow managed to pull this off, she's audacious and good at politics. (View Post)

Tokyo does though, so if you look at Tokyo you can see that the planning system is doing its job. Population is growing, floor space per person is growing, rents are stable, shops and transport are c… (View Post)

He should get a job working for Ukraine. Some rich person can spare a million or so to keep him in the style in which he's accustomed while travelling around the world coordinating arms deals an… (View Post)

This is a masterpiece of political ambivalence. Depending on what you put in "simplified regulations" it either means a glorious YIMBY orgy of construction, or that nobody will ever build a… (View Post)